Politics Among Nations, Brief Edition

This brief edition - edited by Professor Morgenthau's former research assistant - is an updated version of the sixth edition of a text on international politics As such, it features the same themes, including national interest and power, that are commonplace among practitioners of foreign policy. The new format allows the instructor more flexibility - now he or she can assign the definitive framework on international relations with supplemental readers that offer more information on current applications. This brief version preserves intact the first ten chapters of the sixth edition - material dealing with Morgenthau's basic philosophical principles, a realistic theory, politics as a struggle for power, foreign policies, nationalism and national power. Updated, edited material is included from the sixth edition in the later chapters dealing with the application of the aforementioned principles. These chapters include the balance of power, morality and international law. Technical, complex information that often made this text inaccessible to undergraduates has been removed from the brief edition.